Oak-seat



P. iP;- JOSEFF.

Car Seat and Couch.

.Patented Nov. -'12, 1858 N. PEERS. PHDTD-LITHOGRAPHEH, WASHINGTON, C.

FEED

P. P. JOSEFF, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

' CAR-SEAT.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that l, P. l?. Josnrr, of the city and county of Philadelphia and State o' Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful improvement in Railroad-Car Seats for Rendering Them Capable of Being Beadily Converted into Horizontal Sleeping-Couches; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

Figure l, is an end elevation of two seats, the parts of one being arranged in the proper position to accommodate the passengers in a sitting posture, and the back and extension bottom of the other being arranged in the positions they are made to assume when the seats are converted into sleeping couches. F ig. 2, is a longitudinal section of an improved car seat when arranged in the proper position to be occupied in a sitting posture. Fig. 3, is a transverse section of ditto.

Similar letters in the gures refer to corresponding parts.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention l will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

The permanent portionsv A, ot the seat bottoms are secured at their ends to upright irregular shaped trames B, of metal or other suitable material, iirmly fastened to the sides and fioor of the car, which upright frames are curved on their upper ends, to form suitable arm rests for the passengers, those B, next the longitudinal passage way through the car, being made hollow and in the form of a box, with a detachable side, for containing certain parts for operating the movable portions A, of the seats, as will be hereafter described. The ends of the movable portions A. of the bottoms of the seats are hinged at one of their edges to ears projecting from the edges of the permanent portions A, of said bottoms, and

j from these ends, a short distance from the enlarged at its lower part, and having cogs formed on the vertical edge of its widened part, so as to form a cogged rack, with a rounded upper end, capable of operating upon the radial arm D and pinion D, when raised. Similar cogs E are formed on the opposite edge ot this plate E, which mesh in gear with a pinion'F, whose shaft is sustained in boxes in the frame B, and is provided with a crank G, outside the detachable side plate of said trame, the handle G, of which crank is jointed to its end by a pin, upon which it moves, for the purpose of bringing it at right angles to the end of said crank, when it is desired to turn the same, or extending it upon a line therewith, between the ends of forked bars ZJ, Z/, projecting from the surface of the detachable side plate, in order to secure it at these parts when desired, as will be hereinafter described. This cogged plate E is secured at its upper part to a block ot metal, the exact thickness of the plate forming the part ot the upright frame, next the seat, and to the lower end of vertical slotted plate F, the slot in which corresponds in width with the block of metal between the two plates E, F, and another slot B2, formed in the upright frame B next the passage way in which the metal block moves, and extends above the pins or studs, to which the right angled arms H of the seat backs l are jointed, in such a manner as to allow said plate F, with its attachments, to move up and down, and grooved friction wheels K, turning on pins or studs projecting from the face of the plate F, on either side oit the vertical slot in the same, to come in Contact with the corresponding rounded edges of the right angled bar H, when raised, which rounded edges are made circling from their straight portion, to the straight portion ot the bar H, on the edge of the seatbacks, next the passage way, from which it projects.

W'hen it is desired to employ the seats for sitting purposes, the cranks G, are turned until their jointed handles G, are opposite the upper yoke formed catch when the said handles G, are turned upward, and straightened, and brought between the project-ing prongs of said yoke, as represented in the right hand seat, and shown in F ig. l. This leaves the back I, or' the seat free to move to either side, in order to enable it to be reversed, to accommodate the passengers in sitting post-ure, facing each end of the car, the movable bottom A being previously turned on top of the permanent bottom A of the seat.

By drawing `the ointed handle G of the crank G, out from between the prongs of the yoke Z), and turning the same to the left the pinion F', is caused to raise the plate E, by acting on the clogs E, on one of its edges, and the rounded upper edge of the projectingportion of the plate E, on the edge of which the cogs for meshing in gear with the pinion D, are formed, comes in Contact with the radial arm D, projecting from the periphery of the said pinion D, after the back l has commenced its turning movement, through the action of one of the grooved wheels K, on the rounded edge of the right angled arm H. The back l, and movable bottom A, of the seat, are thus turned simultaneously, the former by the grooved wheels K, and the latter, first by the raising of the radial arm D, and with it of course, the movable seat-bottom A, with the wrist pin or stud C, projecting from its side, with which said radial arm is in Contact, and subsequently by the action of the cogged rack below on the pinion D, until the said movable seat bottom A', is brought vto a horizontal position between the permanent seat bottom A, to which it is hinged, and the one next in succession, and the back I, is brought to a horizontal position above, with its edge next to and in oontact with, the edge of the raised horizontal back of the next seat, where it is held by the grooved wheels K, upon which the rounded edges of the bar H, at the edge of the seat baclrrlf, rests. Vhen in this position the jointed handle G of the crank, is brought on a line with the crank Gr, between the prongs of the lower yoke o', for firmly securing the back in its horizontal position. ln this manner a series of double horizontal sleeping couches, at the requied elevation and distances apart, is instantaneously formed on either side of the car, the whole length of the same, which couches are capable of accommodating the whole number of passengers for which it is designed to accommodate in a sitting posture.

Each seat back may be provided with suitable winding or folding curtains, for in suring privacy to the couches.

That l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

The combination and arrangement of the slotted vertical bar F, having grooved wheels l on its face, cogged plate E, pinions D ll", radial arm D, and wrist pin or stud C, projecting from the end of the movvable seat bottom A, and jointed crank G,

substantially in the manner herein described.

P. P. JOSEFF.

`Witnesses ANDREW J. BARNARD, LoUIs GERBER. 

